Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for a pharmacist with drive and enthusiasm to join our dynamic rheumatology pharmacy team supporting our service to patients with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis.
This exciting post promises to bring opportunities and challenges working within a dedicated and national award-winning Rheumatology team, as well as working collaboratively with the Osteoporosis Service. This post also provides excellent access to multidisciplinary team, opportunity to develop leadership and negotiating skills and to participate in outpatient clinics providing highly specialist services to a defined group of patients.
The successful candidate will need to be an experienced pharmacist that has worked across a variety of clinical areas and has a desire to specialise in Rheumatology. You will have experience in good service delivery and management, a proven track record of delivering change within dynamic environments, excellent communication skills, experience of supervising other staff and providing education and training.
Main duties of the job
This post will provide the successful candidate an opportunity to develop their clinical and project management skills as well as build collaborative working relationships with rheumatology clinicians and colleagues in primary care. Non-medical prescriber qualification is essential and previous experience with DMARDs monitoring or biologics would be beneficial.
Key aspects of the role include:
- Providing prescribing advice and support to medical and nursing staff in outpatient clinics and at ward level
- Educating patients about their medicines both over the phone and in an outpatient setting
- Making clinical decisions about adverse drug reactions or abnormal blood results relating to DMARDs
- Developing a clinical pharmacy service within the clinical area and Trust and monitoring outcomes of contributions
- Collaborative development of medicines related policies e.g. shared care protocols
- Involvement in the clinical commissioning of high-cost medications
- Participate in and lead where required on novel pharmacy projects in relation to homecare medicines
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country.
As a pharmacy department we have a strong clinical presence on all four Hospital sites and provide a comprehensive range of pharmaceutical care and extended roles. The post is based at the NHS Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, a specialist hospital renowned for providing excellent orthopaedic and rheumatology care to patients within and outside Oxfordshire.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes useValue Based Interviewingto identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visitwww.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Actively participate as a member of the rheumatology MDT on ward rounds, clinical meetings or outpatient clinics as appropriate to provide pharmaceutical advice to prescribers and other health care professionals.
- To maintain a clinical expertise and develop In Rheumatology as appropriate and in accordance with the Trust and Pharmacy strategies. You will be providing and receiving highly complex information often in situations where there may be barriers to understanding. Requirement to communicate highly complex medicine related information to prescribers, clinicians, patients: patients may have language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities and other professionals may challenge advice.
- Demonstrate required skills and knowledge for analysing drug, patient specific information in clinical rheumatology to provide advice on medicines, dosages, formulations and production issues. May also have to make decisions in areas where information is lacking, and medical or other opinion differs.
- Ensure compliance with the British Society of Rheumatology guidance and regional Shared Care Protocols in patients who have recently initiated treatment on DMARDs or have undergone a change to therapy, by reviewing patients as part of a pharmacist-led consultation.
- Develop policies and procedures relating to rheumatology therapies.
- Report and investigate adverse medication incidents related to rheumatology.
- Assist with screening of biologic and immunomodulatory prescriptions, utilising monitoring systems such as BlueTeq to ensure compliance with NICE and commissioning guidelines.
- Provide specialised professional and technical education and training to enable the clinical units to meet high standards of patient care and safety, e.g. proactive development of guidelines and patient counselling tools, participation in clinical meetings/teaching sessions.
- Routinely review, update or develop rheumatology shared care protocols in conjunction with the rheumatology team and ICB to ensure safe and effective prescribing in both primary and secondary care
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Actively participate as a member of the rheumatology MDT on ward rounds, clinical meetings or outpatient clinics as appropriate to provide pharmaceutical advice to prescribers and other health care professionals.
- To maintain a clinical expertise and develop In Rheumatology as appropriate and in accordance with the Trust and Pharmacy strategies. You will be providing and receiving highly complex information often in situations where there may be barriers to understanding. Requirement to communicate highly complex medicine related information to prescribers, clinicians, patients: patients may have language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities and other professionals may challenge advice.
- Demonstrate required skills and knowledge for analysing drug, patient specific information in clinical rheumatology to provide advice on medicines, dosages, formulations and production issues. May also have to make decisions in areas where information is lacking, and medical or other opinion differs.
- Ensure compliance with the British Society of Rheumatology guidance and regional Shared Care Protocols in patients who have recently initiated treatment on DMARDs or have undergone a change to therapy, by reviewing patients as part of a pharmacist-led consultation.
- Develop policies and procedures relating to rheumatology therapies.
- Report and investigate adverse medication incidents related to rheumatology.
- Assist with screening of biologic and immunomodulatory prescriptions, utilising monitoring systems such as BlueTeq to ensure compliance with NICE and commissioning guidelines.
- Provide specialised professional and technical education and training to enable the clinical units to meet high standards of patient care and safety, e.g. proactive development of guidelines and patient counselling tools, participation in clinical meetings/teaching sessions.
- Routinely review, update or develop rheumatology shared care protocols in conjunction with the rheumatology team and ICB to ensure safe and effective prescribing in both primary and secondary care
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified to masters degree level (MPharm or equivalent)
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Post-Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent experience.
- Leadership qualification or training.
- Independent Prescriber
Experience
Essential
- Broad clinical pharmacy provision in a number of different clinical areas or sectors.
- Working with senior clinicians and managers.
- Understanding of medication funding streams, drug usage and expenditure reports and use of financial reports to influence business cases and clinical practice.
- Delivering quality improvements
Desirable
- Recent clinical experience in the rheumatology.
- Implementing a cost reduction programme.
Personal Skills
Essential
- Evidence based methodical approach.
- Negotiating and influencing
- Proven time management skills ability to work under pressure.
Desirable
- Evidence of balancing conflicting priorities
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified to masters degree level (MPharm or equivalent)
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Post-Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent experience.
- Leadership qualification or training.
- Independent Prescriber
Experience
Essential
- Broad clinical pharmacy provision in a number of different clinical areas or sectors.
- Working with senior clinicians and managers.
- Understanding of medication funding streams, drug usage and expenditure reports and use of financial reports to influence business cases and clinical practice.
- Delivering quality improvements
Desirable
- Recent clinical experience in the rheumatology.
- Implementing a cost reduction programme.
Personal Skills
Essential
- Evidence based methodical approach.
- Negotiating and influencing
- Proven time management skills ability to work under pressure.
Desirable
- Evidence of balancing conflicting priorities
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
